Today is the last day of Women’s History Month and tomorrow National Poetry Month begins. I know I’m not the only one who tries to mark these occasions while at the some time wondering if doing so somehow contributes to the compartmentalizing of things that we care about. But if it somehow helps to bring attention to things we care about, then I will continue to do so as long as I have a platform. It is in that spirit that I blog today about women’s science authors. Earlier this month on Huffington Post, Sten Oswald asked the question why there are so few science women popularizers? Well, in fact there is a shortage of female science popularizers, but men do seem to be more...
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Filed under: Mary Roach, women in STEM, Dava Sobel, Rebecca Skloot, Virginia Morrell, Diane Ackerman, Debra Blum, Women's History Month, Terrie M. Williams, Emily Anthes, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers, Alexandra Horowitz, popular science books, female writers